Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 289 Alibaba (14)

   The first negotiation failed.

  When she came back from the phone call, the other party was only willing to make a concession of 20 million US dollars, 1.98 billion US dollars, but Ye Dongqing didn't agree, so it ended like this.

Nearly two billion US dollars are involved, no matter where it is placed, it is not a small amount of money. Mr. Becker intends to facilitate this transaction, but the price has not yet been negotiated, so before leaving, he told the company that he would first talk to the shareholders of the company. Talk and negotiate a price that is acceptable to both parties.

  Ye Dongqing politely sent them out of her office without making a clear statement. She sat back on her office chair again and asked Assistant William to bring the map of New York.

Mr. Becker's attitude was intriguing. He felt that it was necessary to prepare an alternative plan. McCord had been listening by the side, and asked, "Why do you want a map? Can you fill in the East River and then make a map?" Produce a piece of land?"

"I didn't prepare enough before, and they obviously didn't feel the pressure. I'm still more optimistic about the land of Vornado Real Estate Company, but I have to create some of their competitors, so that I can successfully push down the price. The premise It's the company's shareholders who are really desperate to get the land off the ground, or else I'm really going to have to think about building Cobra elsewhere."

  It’s a very good idea. It’s often used when doing business, but it’s just a matter of buying land.

  Different from investing in crude oil futures, there are at least land and buildings to build a building. Mr. McCord was successfully swayed by Ye Dongqing, and somehow felt that investing in this kind of real estate was pretty good.

Meeting such an uneasy young boss, this guy's life is not easy. After Xianyu turned over, he didn't want to change back to Xianyu, so he had to retreat and retreat on the premise of not offending Ye Dongqing. The risk of the real estate project is small, yes, but the price of acquiring the land is too high. At this moment, he tentatively said: "Isn't it good to go to the lower city near the Hudson River? I have summed up the experience brought about by the collapse of the World Trade Center last time. There is news It is said that as long as there are suspicious risks in passenger planes, the military fighters will shoot them down. It is unreasonable that similar accidents will occur again. It is safe to build the building there, and there is suitable land, and you can see the New World Trade Center or Hades Sun River."

"By the way, in addition to the low cost factor, the employees of the company can also rent cheap houses. It is definitely not possible to continue to pay rent subsidies. Do you know how much you will subsidize every month? Nearly 600,000 US dollars! The annual cost is about 7.2 million U.S. dollars, which is cheap for those landlords.”

  Mr. McCord said that he had a house in Midtown, so he could not get the housing subsidy issued by the company, let alone such a small amount of money. He made this proposal for the benefit of Ye Dongqing.

Last year, I moved the company from Wall Street to Midtown. I wanted to keep the old employees, so I was willing to pay part of the rent in the name of the company. Now that the number of employees of Danshui Investment Group is increasing, it will definitely be a loss if we continue to implement it. Looking at the high salaries of those financial white-collar workers, about one-third to one-half of the monthly salary goes into the pockets of the landlords, mainly depending on the location from the Puchuan Building and the living environment.

Moving the company to South Central Park still cannot reduce the rent expenses of the employees, and the rent in the downtown area will be slightly cheaper, which is conducive to retaining the company's employees, and the area close to the Hudson River in the downtown area is also part of the CBD of Manhattan. One, the land price is about 40% cheaper than the one next to South Central Park.

   Ye Dongqing could also figure out this account. He hesitated for a moment after hearing this, and said, "Let's see when the time comes. I'll try it first. If it doesn't work, go to the city, or wait a few more years."

Building a building is impulsive. At present, saving money is more in his personal interest. Mr. McCord thinks that he wants to wait until he earns more money, and then decide whether to build a building according to the situation. In fact, Ye Dongqing is talking about the subprime mortgage crisis .

If the subprime mortgage crisis occurs as usual in this lifetime, the turmoil is enough to bring the land price in Manhattan back to the level of the 1990s or even the 1980s. It is obviously more cost-effective to buy land at that time. It is hard to say that there will be another subprime mortgage crisis.

A stable global economic environment is more suitable for doing business. Maybe Ye Dongqing will take the initiative to step on the brakes when the subprime mortgages are overheated. Shorting and making money from it is not only the subprime mortgage market itself, but also the financial tsunami caused by the subprime mortgage crisis. The impact cannot be assessed in a few years. After all, the subprime mortgage business is still relatively healthy and the impact is not great.

   "It's better this way, I mean it, Leo."

Mr. McCord stood up, fastened the buttons of his suit, and told him the good news: "There is one more thing I have to tell you, that Alibaba and the Forty Thieves Company in Huaxia have agreed to accept our financing, a total of 500 million U.S. dollars , in exchange for 43% of the shares, this is the best condition we can get.

Although I don't know why you are so optimistic about it, but at least it can satisfy your wish. Since I took over the position of the predecessor, you have mentioned it in front of me at least five times, only when you face Apple or Amazon. There is this enthusiasm. "

   "Really?!" Ye Dongqing was pleasantly surprised.

   "Of course it's true, why should I tease you with such a thing?"

   "Alibaba, isn't Alibaba and the Forty Thieves?"

   "...You should know that this is just a joke. If you think it's okay, I can sign with them now. People from this company are currently living in the hotel next door."

  After hearing what he said, Ye Dongqing smiled: "You should have told me earlier that the company sent people. Is there a guy with a strange appearance named Jack Ma?"

After thinking for a while, Mr. McCord affirmed: "There is no such person. The team leader has studied at Yale, and I had dinner with him yesterday. I wanted to tell you, but you just moved to a new home and still Let us leave you alone on the ride, so I think it's better to let you know when it's done, and you agree to the deal?"

"Just agree, and give me all the operating data of that company since its establishment, as well as its future development plan. The **** guy at Softbank in Japan does not agree to sell the shares to me. It is not yet letting me succeed. gone?"

  Ye Dongqing is naturally happy, because he won another company with high growth potential, which is a surprise.

From the time he went to Tencent to investigate, he sent people to contact Alibaba to try to discuss financing. Alibaba Group is very short of money these days. It has been a long time since Sun Zhengyi invested 20 million US dollars. By next year, it should be Yahoo who reached a financing agreement with that company, and now the financing time has been brought forward a lot...

  (end of this chapter)